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Membership Book 2019-2020
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Leadership ................................................................................................................... 1
Bienen School of Music ................................................................................................. 2
Feinberg School of Medicine ......................................................................................... 3
Kellogg School of Management .................................................................................. 11
McCormick School of Engineering .............................................................................. 14
Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications ............... 17
Northwestern Emeriti Organization ............................................................................ 19
Northwestern University in Qatar ............................................................................... 20
Pritzker School of Law ................................................................................................ 21
School of Education and Social Policy ......................................................................... 22
School of Communication .......................................................................................... 23
University Libraries ..................................................................................................... 25
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences ....................................................................... 26
Affiliated Faculty ........................................................................................................ 35
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LEADERSHIP
Lois Hedman, P.T., D.Sc.P.T.
President
Non-Tenure Eligible Member, Feinberg School of Medicine
312-908-6782
Dr. Lois Hedman is interested in developing the basic requirements of walking into a clinical tool to guide
examination and intervention. She is also interested in describing, measuring and intervening in balance
dysfunction post-stroke. Third, Dr. Hedman is interested in the development of clinical decision making
in PT students.
Therese McGuire, Ph.D.
President-Elect
Strategy, Kellogg School of Management
847-491-8683
Therese J. McGuire is Professor of Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern
University. She has been a faculty member at Kellogg since 2002 and has held various administrative
positions, including Director of the Real Estate Program, Chair of the Strategy Department, and Senior
Associate Dean for Curriculum and Teaching. McGuire's areas of expertise are state and local public finance,
fiscal decentralization, and regional economic development. McGuire was President of the National Tax Association in 1999-2000, as well
as the editor of the NTA's academic journal, the National Tax Journal from 2001 until 2009. McGuire has a B.A. with a dual major in
Mathematics and Economics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.
Baron Reed, Ph.D.
Past President
Philosophy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
847-467-6370
Baron Reed specializes in epistemology and has research and teaching interests in both ancient and early
modern philosophy as well as metaphysics. His recent research focuses on skepticism, the relevance of
practical interests to knowledge, epistemic norms, epistemic agency, and epistemic psychology.
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BIENEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
John Thorne, M.M.
Music Performance
847-491-7228
John Thorne is an Associate Professor of Flute at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. He
joined the Bienen School faculty after having been the Associate Principal Flute of the Houston
Symphony from 1992 until 2012. Currently, Mr. Thorne is a substitute flutist with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra. He also performs with the Chicago Philharmonic as principal flutist.
Sarah Bartolome, Ph.D.
Music Studies
847-491-8948
Sarah Bartolome (G02) previously held the position of assistant professor of music education at Louisiana
State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BM in voice performance and music education from
Ithaca College, an MM in music education with a concentration in voice performance and pedagogy from
Northwestern University, and a PhD in music education from the University of Washington. Her research
interests include children’s musical culture, ethnomusicology, choral culture from a global perspective, service-learning in higher
education, and music teacher preparation. She has published articles in such journals as the Journal of Research in Music
Education, Research Studies in Music Education and the Music Educators Journal.
Anne Waller, M.M.
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
847-491-4769
Anne Waller has toured for over thirty-five years as a soloist, chamber musician, and member of the
Waller and Maxwell Guitar Duo. Ms. Waller joined the faculty of the Bienen School of Music in 1985 and
established the classical guitar program one year later. She specializes in the exploration and
performance of works for nineteenth- and early twentieth-century guitars on historical instruments. Ms. Waller has been presented
in a wide variety of festival, concert, and radio venues, and has performed, lectured and taught master classes at colleges and
universities throughout the United States and Europe. She has made recordings for the Music from Northwestern Series and Berto
Records. She is the founding Artistic Director of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series.
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FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
John Patrick F. Bebawy, M.D.
Anesthesiology
312-695-0061
Dr. John Bebawy’s clinical and research interests and expertise relate to Neuroanesthesia, with a focus
on interventions that affect cerebral blood flow and cerebrovascular hemodynamics. Dr. Bebawy
completed his Anesthesiology residency and Neurosurgical Anesthesiology fellowship training at
Northwestern in 2008, where he is currently faculty, Associate Director of the Neurosurgical
Anesthesiology Fellowship Program, and Director of Neurosurgical Anesthesia Education.
Daniel R. Foltz, Ph.D.
Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
312-503-5648
Dr. Daniel Foltz received his B.A from the University of Minnesota and his Ph.D. in 2001 from the
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Integrated Graduate Program. He then moved to
San Diego to conduct postdoctoral work at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research on the UCSD
campus. Dr. Foltz accepted his first faculty position in 2008 at the University of Virginia in the
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics. He moved his laboratory to the Feinberg School of Medicine in 2015 to join the
faculty of the new Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Department, where they study chromosome segregation.
Steven Kosak, Ph.D.
Cell & Molecular Biology
312-503-9582
Steven T. Kosak is an assistant professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Northwestern
University Feinberg School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology from
The University of Chicago. As a graduate student he began his focus on the functional organization of the
vertebrate genome. Dr. Kosak went on to pursue the relationship between gene regulation and nuclear
organization in the laboratory of Dr. Mark Groudine at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. With his own group at
Northwestern, Dr. Kosak continues to broadly examine how the human genome self-organizes in relation to its myriad functions.
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Xiao-Qi Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Dermatology
312-503-0294
Xiao-Qi Wang is a research associate professor of Dermatology at the Northwestern University Feinberg
School of Medicine. She received her M.D. and Ph.D. from China. Dr. Wang’s research focuses on the
glycolipid and cell behavior of skin cancers. She is a member of the Society for Investigative
Dermatology, Lurie Cancer Center of Northwestern University and the Society for Glycobiology.
Amy Kontrick, M.D.
Emergency Medicine
312-694-7000
Dr. Amy Kontrick is an emergency medicine doctor in Chicago, Illinois and is affiliated with Northwestern
Memorial Hospital. She received her medical degree from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
and has been in practice for more than 20 years. She is one of 83 doctors at Northwestern Memorial
Hospital who specialize in Emergency Medicine.
Katherine Wright, Ph.D.
Family and Community Medicine
312-503-4630
Dr. Wright's research examines the effectiveness of health and education policy measures while considering the
mediating and moderating factors that influence population metrics. Within this context, she has also developed
new methodological approaches to account for missing data, and has extensively analyzed large scale data such as
the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
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Courtney Blackwell, Ph.D.
Medical Social Sciences
Dr. Blackwell is a developmental methodologist with expertise in early childhood education and survey
development, particularly child- and parent-reported health outcomes measures. Her research focuses on
early learning and positive health development, and the complex social environmental factors that
contribute to such outcomes. Fundamental to her work is an emphasis on conducting research that
informs health and education policy and practice. She is currently an integral member of the Person Reported Outcome (PRO) Core for
the NIH-funded Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) research program.
Celia O’Brien, Ph.D.
Medical Education
312-503-3888
Dr. Celia O’Brien is Assistant Professor of Medical Education and the Director of Assessment and Program
Evaluation in the Augusta Webster, MD, Office of Medical Education (AWOME). She completed her doctorate
in Higher Education at the University of Arizona in 2011. Dr. O’Brien’s research and most recent publications
focus on student assessment, competency-based medical education, and related issues in the undergraduate medical training
environment. Within AWOME she is responsible for MD program student assessment systems and for the evaluation of curricular
outcomes. She is also a faculty tutor for problem-based learning coursework.
Joshua M. Hauser, M.D.
Chair, Social Responsibility Committee
Medicine
312-503-3478
Joshua Hauser, M.D., is Associate Professor of Medicine (Palliative Care) at the Buehler Center on Aging,
Health and Society, Institute for Public Health and Medicine. He directs the palliative medicine fellowship
at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and is Palliative Care Section Chief at the Jesse Brown (Chicago) VA
Medical Center. After graduating Harvard Medical School, Dr. Hauser completed his residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and
a fellowship in health services research and medical ethics at the University of Chicago. Dr. Hauser’s research focuses on patient and
family communication, palliative care, and hospice.
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Jonathan Leis, Ph.D.
Microbiology-Immunology
312-503-1166
Jonathan Leis is a Professor of Microbiology-Immunology and the Senior Associate Dean for Research
for the Office of Finance and Administration at the Feinberg School of Medicine. His work focuses on
retrovirus replication, reverse transcription, integration, virus assembly mechanisms, and molecular genetics.
Derek Wainwright, Ph.D.
Neurological Surgery
312-503-4345
The primary goal of our research is to analyze the immune response in human brain tumors, as well as
syngeneic and humanized mouse brain tumor models, with the intent to develop and evaluate novel
immunotherapeutic strategies for malignant brain cancer. We aim to: 1) discover new targets that
increase immunosuppression, 2) develop new drugs that inhibit immunosuppression, 3) and test novel
treatment strategies for clinical translation into human patients with malignant glioma.Current Projects-Dissect the multiple roles of
immunosuppressive indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase 1 (IDO) in glioblastoma (GBM)-Determine how advanced age suppresses the
effectiveness of immunotherapy for treatment of GBM-Investigate the psychosocial aspects of stress, anxiety and/or depression on
the suppression of immunotherapeutic efficacy for GBM.-Characterize the gut microbiota of GBM patients, before and after
treatment with immunotherapy
Elena Grebenciucova, M.D.
Neurology
312-695-1100
Dr. Grebenciucova's researches multiple sclerosis treatments, specifically focusing on the effects of aging on the
immune system. According to her findings, immunosenescence as a concept is directly relevant to the world of
neuro-inflammation, as it may be a contributing factor to the risks associated with some of the current
immunosuppressive and immunomodulatory therapies used in treating multiple sclerosis (MS) and other
inflammatory disorders.
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Angela Lawson, Ph.D.
Obstetrics and Gynecology
312-926-8244
Angela Lawson, PhD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology and Psychiatry at
Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She is a licensed clinical psychologist
specializing in women’s reproductive health and sexual trauma. She joined the faculty at Northwestern
in 2008 where she provides consultation as well as psychotherapy related to infertility and other
reproductive concerns. She also conducts research on the psychological aspects of infertility and trauma. Dr. Lawson serves as a Past
Chair of the Executive Committee for the Mental Health Professional Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
Carol Schmidt, M.D.
Ophthalmology
312-695-8150
Dr. Schmidt joined the Department of Ophthalmology at Northwestern 2001 after several years in
private practice in Long Grove, Barrington, and Glenview, IL. Clinically, she see patients for a wide range
of ophthalmic issues, such as detection of glaucoma, screening for diabetic retinopathy and macular
degeneration, evaluation for ocular complications of long-term systemic medications, as well as ocular
mid margin disease, dry eye, and cataracts. Her research interests have included surgical simulation in
undergraduate and graduate medical education specifically, skill development which I pursued as a Searle Fellow.
James A. Hill, M.D.
Orthopaedic Surgery
312-695-6800
Orthopaedic surgeon Dr. James A. Hill received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his M.D. from
the Feinberg School of Medicine. Hill joined the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1980 and was
appointed as a full professor in 1994. Hill has served as an attending physician at Northwestern Memorial
Hospital, Cook County Hospital, Children’s Memorial Hospital and the Rehabilitation Institute of
Chicago. Hill served as chief of staff of Northwestern Memorial Hospital from 2006 to 2008. Hill was inducted into the NU Black
Alumni Association Hall of Fame and received the Icon Award from the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boys and Girls Club of Chicago.
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Jing Zheng, Ph.D.
Otolaryngology
312-503-3417
Dr. Jing Zheng received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Her lab aims to identify and
investigate molecules that play important roles in mammalian hearing, thus to enrich our understanding
of cochlear physiology, and to further develop a better strategy to prevent hearing loss.
Ronen Sumagin, Ph.D.
Pathology
312-503-8144
Dr. Sumagin’s laboratory focuses on interactions of innate immune cells, specifically neutrophils with
luminally expressed epithelial adhesive receptors, and the contribution of these interactions to regulation
of epithelial barrier and mucosal wound healing, under the conditions of intestinal inflammation. A better
understanding of the mechanisms regulating PMN recruitment and retention at the mucosal surfaces,
and identification of specific molecules that may link PMN-epithelial cell interactions with epithelial barrier function and wound repair
are imperative for the development of new and improved therapeutic approaches aiding in the resolution of mucosal inflammation,
and reestablishing epithelial homeostasis.
Sabrina Derrington, M.D.
Pediatrics
312-227-4928
Dr. Derrington focuses on research related to medical decision-making in pediatrics, including the process
of prognostication, the ethics of decisions about life-sustaining treatment, patient and family needs in the
PICU and in palliative care, and decisions about participation in genomic research.
Hiroaki Kiyokawa, M.D., Ph.D.
Pharmacology
312-503-0699
Dr. Kiyokawa's research is focused on the roles of cell division cycle-regulatory genes in cancer initiation
and progression, with an emphasis on breast, ovary and other endocrine-related tumors. To define the
mechanisms of cancer development that are linked to organismal development, the laboratory takes a
unique strategy that combines biochemistry, proteomics and mouse genetics.
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Christopher Reger, M.D.
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
312-238-1000
Dr. Christopher Reger is physiatrist and assistant professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine. He
received his M.D. from the Chicago Medical School and completed his residency at Loyola University
Medical Center. Dr. Reger specializes in spasticity management, amputation post-operative
management, and prosthetic management.
James Baker, Ph.D.
Physiology
312-503-1322
Professor James Baker completed his doctorate in psychology at Brown University and postdoctoral
fellowships in biology at the California Institute of Technology. His lab studies the vestibular and visual
sensory systems and the reflex motor outputs to the eyes, neck, and limbs. Much of their research
explores the vestibulo-ocular reflex, which responds to head rotations by rotating the eyes in an equal
and opposite way so that the line of sight remains constant during head movement, maintaining fixation
on an object.
Katherine M. Martinez, P.T., Ph.D.
Physical Therapy & Human Movement Sciences
312-503-3341
Dr. Katherine Martinez is a physical therapist whose clinical work focuses on people with neurological
dysfunction. She received her Ph.D. from Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Martinez’s research interest
is in postural control and balance, with a specific focus on reactive balance control.
Nicholas Soulakis, Ph.D.
Preventive Medicine
312-908-7914
Nicholas Soulakis is a public health scientist whose research focus lies at the intersection of epidemiology and informatics with an emphasis on understanding the expanding, data-rich environment created by health information technology and leveraging computationally intensive analytical techniques to monitor healthcare quality and ultimately improve population health outcomes. His current work is an expansion into the newly emerging field of quality informatics and patient outcomes; seeking to better understand the ascertainment of
healthcare networks and developing a more comprehensive scientific approach to understanding the dynamics of care coordination for hospitalized patient populations.
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Inger Burnett-Zeigler, Ph.D.
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
312-695-8099
Dr. Burnett-Zeigler treats patients at the Asher Center for the Study and Treatment of Depressive Disorders. Her clinical interests are in mood and anxiety disorders, comorbid substance use disorders, stress management, wellness and interpersonal relationships. She has training and experience in several psychotherapy interventions including psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, behavioral activation, and mindfulness meditation. Dr. Burnett-Zeigler’s
research focuses on examining the factors associated with mental health service utilization.
Eric Donnelly, M.D.
Radiation Oncology
Dr. Donnelly’s research interests include use of innovative treatment modalities for breast, gynecological, and gastrointestinal cancers in order to obtain better tumor control and decrease toxicity of treatment.
Erin McComb, M.D.
Radiology
312-695-5753
Dr. Erin McComb specializes in neuroradiology.
The Surgery Department is currently holding an election.
Dennis Liu, M.D.
Urology
312-908-8145
Dennis B. Liu, MD, is an Attending Physician in the Division of Urology at Lurie Children's. Dr. Liu received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Northwestern University. He completed residency training in urologic surgery at the Medical College of Ohio and completed a fellowship in pediatric urology at Children's Memorial Hospital. Dr. Liu is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Pediatrics. His areas of special interest include hypospadias, undescended
testicles, genital/urinary tract reconstruction, renal and ureteral anomalies, prenatal consultation, and pediatric stone disease.
For Senator Lois Hedman, Feinberg’s non-tenure eligible representative, see Leadership above.
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KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Linda Vincent, M.B.A., Ph.D.
Accounting Information & Management
847-491-2659
Linda Vincent is an Associate Professor in the Accounting Information and Management department. Prior to
joining Kellogg in 1999, Professor Vincent was an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Graduate
School of Business. Professor Vincent’s research interests are in the areas of financial reporting and capital
markets with a focus on business combinations, divisive restructurings, real estate, pensions, and the
informativeness of financial reporting data for securities returns under different information environments and capital structures. Professor
Vincent has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Accounting Horizons, and the Journal of Accounting
Research. She is an ad hoc reviewer for The Accounting Review; Contemporary Accounting Research; Journal of Accounting, Auditing and
Finance; Real Estate Economics; Review of Accounting Studies; and the Review of Financial Studies. Professor Vincent was awarded the
Faculty Impact Award in 2017; Chairs’ Core Course Teaching Award in 2000; and the Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award in 2001, 2003, and 2007.
She received an MBA in Accounting and Finance from Kellogg and a PhD in Accounting from Northwestern University.
Ravi Jagannathan, M.B.A., Ph.D.
Finance
847-491-8338
Dr. Ravi Jagannathan is the Chicago Mercantile Exchange/John F. Sandner Professor of Finance at
Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Co-Director of the Financial Institutions and
Markets Research Center at the Kellogg School, and the Chair of the Advisory Committee on Investment
Responsibility. Ravi has served on the editorial boards of leading academic journals, and is a former
executive editor of the Review of Financial Studies. Ravi's research interests are in the areas of asset pricing, capital markets, and
financial institutions. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance,
and Review of Financial Studies, and other leading journals.
Paul Hirsch, Ph.D.
Management & Organizations
847-491-8069
Paul M. Hirsch is the James L. Allen Professor of Strategy & Organizations at the Kellogg School of
Management. Professor Hirsch has written extensively about careers and organizational change; his
articles have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly journals - most recently Strategic
Organization and American Sociological Review. He was among the first to anticipate and write on
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widespread changes in the employment relationship stemming from corporate mergers and continuing on through the
present. Hirsch's recent work has also focused on policy and ethical issues raised by the mortgage meltdown.
Eran Shmaya, Ph.D.
Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences
847-467-0281
Eran Shmaya joined the Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences department at the Kellogg School
of Management in 2008. Professor Shmaya graduated from Tel Aviv University in 2007. Professor
Shmaya's research areas are game theory, probability and information theory.
Angela Lee, Ph.D.
Marketing
847-467-5334
Angela Y. Lee is the Mechthild Esser Nemmers Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of
Management. Angela is a consumer psychologist. Her expertise is in consumer learning, emotions and goals.
Her research focuses on consumer motivation and persuasion, cross-cultural consumer psychology, and
nonconscious influences of memory on judgment and choice. She was the recipient of the 2006 Stanley Reiter
Best Paper Award for her research on self-regulation and persuasion, and the 2002 Otto Klineberg Award for
best paper on international and intercultural relations. Angela is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, a Fellow of the
American Psychological Society, and a Past President of the Association for Consumer Research. She is the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of
the Association for Consumer Research, an associate editor at the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and serves on the editorial boards of
the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research.
Martin Lariviere, Ph.D.
Operations
847-491-8169
Martin Lariviere joined the faculty at the Kellogg School in 2000. His research has focused on applying economic analysis to operations management problems. He has been a member of the editorial boards of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Management Science, and Operations Research. He has held a number of leadership positions in the Manufacturing and Service Operations Society. He is a
Distinguished Fellow of the MSOM Society and a recipient of the Saul Gass Expository Writing Award.
For Senator Therese McGuire of Strategy , see Leadership above.
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Tim Calkins, M.B.A.
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
847-467-3209
Tim Calkins is Clinical Professor of Marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
He teaches courses including Marketing Strategy and Biomedical Marketing. He is the author of three books
including his latest, How to Wash a Chicken –Mastering the Business Presentation. He began his career at the
consulting firm Booz Allen and Hamilton. He then spent 11 years at Kraft Foods leading brands including Miracle Whip, Taco Bell, Parkay
and DiGiorno. He received his BA from Yale and his MBA from Harvard. Tim lives in Chicago with his wife and three children.
McCORMICK SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
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Hao Zhang, Ph.D.
Biomedical Engineering
847-491-2946
Dr. Hao Zhang’s research focuses on biomedical optics, including optical coherence tomography, super-resolution microscopy, ophthalmic imaging, and molecular imaging. He received his doctorate from Texas A&M University.
Stephen Carr, Ph.D.
Chemical and Biological Engineering
847-491-3558
Professor Carr's career has involved teaching in materials science and engineering, research on polymer
solids and fluids, and serving for 23 years as the dean of undergraduate engineering at Northwestern.
Currently Steve Carr is co-director of Northwestern’s Master of Product Design and Development
Management degree program, and he is developing coursework related to materials selection as an indispensable part of product
design and development.
Marco Nie, Ph.D.
Civil & Environmental Engineering
847-467-0502
Dr. Nie’s primary interest is to better understand and predict the behavior of transportation networks,
and to formulate new design and control strategies to improve mobility, reliability and sustainability of
these systems. Unlike other networks such as communication and social networks, the behavior of a
transportation network depends on the interactions between human activities (travel choice and driving behavior), physical
characteristics of the infrastructure and network topology. As a result, Dr. Nie’s analyses of transportation systems take an
interdisciplinary approach that draws on tools from optimization, network science, traffic flow theory, economics, and statistics.
His research covers various aspects of transportation systems analysis, ranging from developing specialized routing algorithms to
designing Pareto-improving congestion pricing schemes. Despite their diversity, most problems that I have been working on
address research questions that not only are of theoretical interest but also promise relevant real-world impacts.
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Stephen Tarzia, Ph.D.
Computer Science
847-491-7069
Tarzia has recently focused on Computer Science education and digital journalism. Prior to that, his
research explored acoustic sensing on mobile systems, with applications in indoor localization. He has
been a professional fellow at the Medill School of Journalism and a computational research consultant
at the Kellogg School of Management. He also spent six years working as a software engineer, engineering manager, and
entrepreneur. He earned a Ph.D. from Northwestern and a B.S. from Columbia University, both in Computer Engineering.
Manijeh Razeghi, D.Sc.
Electrical & Computer Engineering
847-491-7251
Dr. Razeghi is one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology. She is a pioneer in the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques such as MOCVD, VPE, MBE GasMBE, and MOMBE for the growth of entire compositional range if III-V compound semiconductors, heterostructures, quantum wells and superlattices for quantum photonics and electronic devices. Dr. Razeghi is the author of 18 books and 31 book chapters. She has authored or co-
authored more than 1000 papers and given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. Dr. Razeghi is the recipient of the 2016 Jan Czochralski Gold Medal.
Hermann Riecke, Ph.D.
Engineering Science & Applied Mathematics
847-491-8316
Dr. Riecke’s research interests are mostly in the area of computational neuroscience. One focus is
plasticity mechanisms and how they restructure neuronal networks. Dr. Riecke is particularly fascinated
by the role of feedback from higher brain areas in the restructuring of networks and the information
processing performed by the networks resulting from it, as it is observed in the olfactory system. To gain
insight into these phenomena he investigates networks of simplified neuron models. Another focus is the coherent dynamics of
networks of simple and more complex neurons, which underlie the rhythmic activity observed in many brain areas. In work on the
retina he has focused on biophysically detailed neuron models. A second area of interest has been the study of spatially extended
dynamical systems with focus on pattern formation. Specific topics investigated have been bifurcation theory with symmetry,
spatially localized patterns, complex patterns, and spatio-temporal chaos.
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Noshir Contractor, Ph.D.
Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences
847-491-3669
Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science, the School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management. He is the Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group. He is investigating factors that lead to the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks in a wide variety of contexts including communities of practice in business, translational science and engineering
communities, public health networks and virtual worlds.
Laurence Marks, Ph.D.
Materials Science & Engineering
847-491-3996
Laurence D. Marks, Ph.D. is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. His most highly cited work is the discovery of a type of nanoparticle which has become known as the Marks Decahedron. He pioneered the use of HREM to study the structure of nanoparticles, the use of direct methods for surfaces with either electron or x-ray diffraction data, in-situ methods for tribology inside electron microscopes, fast methods of obtaining optical and structural measurements from single nanoparticles and most recently a new class of fixed-point
algorithms for DFT calculations.
Cheng Sun, Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering
847-467-0704
Dr. Sun’s primary research interests are in the fields of Emerging applications of nano-electronics, nanophotonics, nano-electromechanical systems and nano-biomedical systems necessitate developments of viable nano-manufacturing technologies. His research group is engaged in developing novel nano-scale fabrication techniques and integrated nano-system for bio-sensing and high-efficiency energy conversion.
Nick Marchuk, M.S.
Chair, Faculty Handbook Committee
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
847-467-0168
Nick manages the Northwestern Mechatronics Design Lab, coordinates the annual McCormick robot
Design Competition, advises students on design projects for courses and independent study, oversees the
Mechatronics Wiki, and works on curriculum development.
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MEDILL SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, MEDIA, INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
Judy Franks
Integrated Marketing Communications
847-467-2067
IMC Lecturer Judy Franks joined the Medill IMC faculty in 2008 following a 23-year career in Chicago’s
leading ad agencies, where she rose to the executive ranks across both the media and creative strategy
disciplines. She teaches undergraduate Media and Message Delivery, graduate Media Economics and
Technology and undergraduate Consumer Insight, and she serves as the Faculty Advisor for graduate
students pursuing a concentration in Media Strategy. Franks teaches across Medill's full-time, part-time and online programs. With
extensive experience in corporate training and development, Franks also develops executive education programs for Medill IMC.
Candy Lee
Journalism (Graduate)
847-491-2065
Candy Lee is a professor at Medill, teaching in journalism and in integrated marketing communications.
Lee also teaches graduate students in the Masters of Product Design and Development Management
Program at the Segal Design Institute. She is on several cross disciplinary committees and boards across
campus and her courses and research focus on leadership, content, innovation, voice synthesis and sports
marketing. Lee is a frequent guest speaker at conferences and executive education workshops.
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Karen E. Springen
Chair, Student Affairs Committee
Journalism (Undergraduate)
Office: 847-467-1459
Cell: 847-770-0621
Karen Springen directs the Journalism Residency program and teaches undergraduate and graduate
reporting and writing classes. Springen spent 24 years at Newsweek, where, as a correspondent, she
reported on stories about a wide range of topics, including AIDS, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the 1996 Olympics, breast implants,
Botox, gluten-free diets and “The Hunger Games.” In recent years, Springen has reported most often about family, health, education
and the publishing industry.
Ceci Rodgers
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
847-467-7393
Ceci Rodgers is an award-winning journalist living in Chicago. Her stories have appeared on CNN, CNNfn,
CNBC, NBC, nationally syndicated TV show Business Week Weekend and the nationally syndicated PBS
show CEO Exchange. Rodgers has worked as a financial journalist for more than two decades, primarily
reporting national and international business stories for CNN’s Moneyline from Chicago, New York,
Washington, D.C. and Tokyo. Among her accomplishments, Rodgers was the first TV journalist to shine the national spotlight on
Chicago’s booming derivatives markets in the 1980’s, 1990’s and 2000’s, with in-depth reporting and unprecedented access to floor
trading. Her live market coverage on CNN and CNNfn from inside Chicago’s bond futures and stock index futures trading pits and
live, instantaneous reaction to economic reports and Federal Reserve news became the standard.
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NORTHWESTERN EMERITI ORGANIZATION
Richard Cohn, M.D.
Pediatrics
312-312-6160
Dr. Cohn came to Northwestern University as a pediatric nephrologist in 1980 where he worked at
Children’s Memorial Hospital, now Lurie Children’s Hospital for 34 years. He was Medical Director of the
Kidney Transplant Program for over 20 years, supervising care for almost 400 children. Dr. Cohn’s other
interests were childhood nephrotic syndrome and hypertension. He retired from clinical care in 2014 and is
now Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics.
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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY IN QATAR
João Queiroga
Communication Program (NU-Q)
João Queiroga is a Portuguese award-winning filmmaker and educator. As a director, his work screened at
the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Hot Docs Canadian International
Documentary Festival, British Film Institute (BFI), DocLisboa and many others. His hybrid documentary film
“Our Skin” was recently nominated for an Iris Award and won the Lili Award. He has also worked for several
non-profit organizations, such as Cinema/Chicago and the Chicago International Film Festival, as well as Fortune 500 companies as
an editor and cinematographer. Additional experience includes assignments with Chicago Filmmakers, the Beijing International
Movie Festival, WGN-TV Chicago and Cannes International Film Festival. He is a Calouste Gulbenkian scholar, a Hoffman scholar, a
Davis UWC scholar, and a Fulbright recipient. Most recently, Queiroga served as the Chair of the Post-Production Department at New
York Film Academy. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Residence at Northwestern University in Qatar.
Craig Lamay
Journalism (NU-Q)
Craig LaMay is an associate professor and a faculty associate at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research;
former editorial director of the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center and editor of Media Studies Journal; a
former newspaper reporter; and currently professor in residence at Northwestern University in Qatar. His
essays and articles have appeared in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek,
Federal Communications Law Journal, Health Policy, Communications and the Law, and many other places.
He is author or co-author of several books. LaMay’s research and professional interests are media development in democratizing and
post-conflict societies; comparative speech law; commercial and public broadcast regulation; and sport as a social institution.
Sami Hermez, Ph.D.
Liberal Arts (NU-Q)
Sami Hermez, PhD, is assistant professor in residence of anthropology at Northwestern University in Qatar.
He obtained his doctorate degree from the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University.
His research focuses on the everyday life of political violence in Lebanon, and his broader concerns include
the study of social movements, the state, memory, security, and human rights in the Arab World.
He has held posts as visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, visiting
professor of Contemporary International Issues at the University of Pittsburgh, visiting professor of anthropology at Mt. Holyoke
College, and postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Lebanese Studies, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. His professional
experience includes work with the United Nations Capital Development Fund and World Bank in New York and Sana’a, Yemen, as
well as a stint with the UN Development Program in Beirut. At NU-Q he teaches classes in anthropology that include topics such as
violence, gender and anthropology in the Middle East.
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LAW SCHOOL
Clint Francis, J.D.
Law Instruction
312-503-8340
Clint Francis is a tenured member of the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law faculty, where
he has been on the faculty since 1978. He teaches and researches in the areas of Corporate
Restructuring/Bankruptcy, Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Capital Management,
and Medical Innovation. 2015-2018 he served, on behalf of Northwestern, as the Founding Dean of
Hamad bin Khalifa University Law School, a member of Qatar Foundation. Professor Francis obtained his initial legal
training in New Zealand, where he completed LLB and LLM degrees, and was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the
New Zealand Supreme Court. He subsequently completed a Doctorate in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Allan Horwich, J.D.
Chair, Committee on Cause
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
312-503-3230
Allan Horwich has practiced law with Schiff Hardin for more than 45 years, where he maintains a limited
role in serving clients and in administration. Allan has taught at Northwestern Pritzker School of
Law since 1999 (full-time since 2009). His teaching focuses on compliance and litigation under the
securities laws. His practice was concentrated in securities litigation and securities and corporate counseling.
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SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL POLICY
James Rosenbaum, Ph.D.
Education & Social Policy
847-491-3795
Education researcher James Rosenbaum's current major area of research concerns the college-for-all
movement, college attendance and coaches, high-school-to-work transitions, and linkages among
students, schools, and employers. For two decades, he conducted an extensive research project on the
effects of relocating poor inner-city black families in public housing to subsidized housing in the white
middle-class suburbs of Chicago. This quasi-natural experiment, known as the Gautreaux Program, has enabled him to study the
effects of these moves on children's educational outcomes and job opportunities, as well as the social and economic effects on the
mothers. These studies encouraged the federal government to create its Moving to Opportunity (MTO) program, implemented by
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A specialist in research on work, education, and housing opportunities,
Rosenbaum has published six books and numerous articles on these subjects.
Lilah Shapiro, Ph.D.
Chair, Secure Faculty Survey Committee
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
847-467-3815
Lilah Shapiro is a qualitative sociologist whose research focuses broadly on the intersections
among race/ethnicity, religion, social class/social location and identity in the contemporary American
context. Her work explores how each of these constructs affect individual and group identity and
experience more broadly (e.g. self-concept, gender roles, family dynamics, cultural and educational investment, etc.) both at
individual stages of development and across the life course. A particular interest is in examining how group or master narratives shape
individual life stories and exploring who has the power to determine the course and content of a narrative. She holds a Ph.D. in
Human Development from the University of Chicago and is a former fellow at the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of
Religion.
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SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION
Steven Zecker, Ph.D.
Communication Sciences & Disorder
847-491-2477
Steven Zecker's work focuses on the role of attention and auditory processing skills in learning. Many individuals with learning problems experience significant impairments in one or both of these areas.
Robert Hariman, Ph.D.
Chair, Budget and Planning Committee
Communication Studies, School of Communication
847-467-0746
Robert Hariman joined the Northwestern faculty in 2004. His scholarship focuses on the role of public art
and artistry in human affairs, particularly with regard to political judgment and the discursive
constitution of modern society. His most recent book, co-authored with John Louis Lucaites, is The Public
Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship (Chicago, 2016).
Joshua Chambers-Letson, Ph.D.
Performance Studies
847-491-2256
Joshua Chambers-Letson is a writer and performance theorist who researches and teaches courses in
performance studies, critical race theory, political theory, and queer of color critique. His books and
essays place performance studies in conversation with a diverse set of fields including black studies,
Asian American studies, Latinx studies, art history, legal studies, and Marxist theory to ask two central
questions: How do black, brown, Asian, queer, and trans people (alongside other minoritarian subjects) use performance both to
survive the destruction and devaluation of their (our) lives and lifeworlds? And how does performance become a means for rehearsing
and enacting new worlds and new ways of being in the world together? Artists that he considers in his scholarship include Nao
Bustamante, Danh Võ, Nina Simone, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Eiko, Keijaun Thomas, Teching Hsieh, Moriyuki Shimada, and Alexandria
Eregbu.
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Jeffrey Sconce, Ph.D.
Radio/Television/Film
847-491-5982
Jeffrey Sconce is Associate Professor in the Screen Cultures program. He is the author of Haunted Media:
Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television (2000) and the editor of Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the
Margins of Taste, Style, and Financing (2007). His new book, The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power,
Insanity will be published by Duke University Press in 2018.
Julie Marie Myatt
Theatre
Julie Marie Myatt is a lecturer in the Department of Theatre. Her plays have been produced at Oregon
Shakespeare Festival, The Kennedy Center, Guthrie Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Magic Theatre
and Cornerstone Theatre, among others. She has had commissions from Roundabout Theatre, Denver
Center Theatre Company, Yale Rep, Cornerstone Theatre Company, ACT Seattle, and South Coast
Repertory. Myatt received a Walt Disney Studios Screenwriting Fellowship, a Jerome Fellowship, a
McKnight Advancement Grant, and was the Mellon Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at South Coast Repertory 2013-2016. She
is an alumna of New Dramatists.
Belma Hadziselimovic
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
847-491-2403
Belma Hadziselimovic is a speech-language pathologist who has worked across a variety of settings,
including private practice, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, and early intervention. Her primary
clinical interests lie in the area of acquired neurogenic disorders of language and cognition.
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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Elsa Alvaro, M.S., Ph.D.
Chair, Non-Tenure Eligible Committee
Librarian
847-467-4588
Elsa Alvaro is the Head of Academic Engagement as well as the Librarian for Chemistry, Physics, and
Astronomy at the Northwestern Libraries. Her areas of interest are chemical information and
scientometrics. She received a PhD in Chemistry from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and
completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Alvaro holds a
MS in Library Science from Indiana University.
Steven Adams, M.S.
Librarian
847-467-2511
Steven M. Adams is Librarian for The Graduate School (TGS), Communication Sciences and Disorders,
Psychology, and Counseling. Steven has an additional appointment as the Faculty Mentor for the 7th class
of Posse Scholars and is Co-Chairing the NU Change Makers Review Committee. Steven also serves as
Board Chair for the Black Metropolis Research Consortium. Previously, he was the Biological and Life
Sciences Librarian and Interim Psychology Librarian at Princeton University. Steven earned a B.A. in
Biology in 1998 and an M.L.S. in 2000 from Clark Atlanta University.
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WEINBERG COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
Barnor Hesse, Ph.D.
African-American Studies
847-491-5122
Barnor Hesse is an Associate Professor of African American Studies, Political Science, and Sociology. His
research interests include post-structuralism and political theory, black political thought, modernity and
coliniality, blackness and affect, race and govermentality, conceptual methodologies, and postcolonial
studies. He received his Ph.D. in Government (Ideology and Discourse Analysis) from the University of
Essex (UK).
Micaela di Leonardo, Ph.D.
Anthropology
847-491-4821
Micaela di Leonardo is an interdisciplinary cultural anthropologist with broad interests in economic and
social inequality, whether by class, race, gender or sexuality--and the analysis of public spheres and
counterpublics rationalizing or protesting against those inequalities. Her book, Black Radio/Black
Resistance: The Life & Times of The Tom Joyner Morning Show was published by Oxford University Press
in 2019.
Claudia Swan, Ph.D.
Chair, Educational Affairs Committee
Art History
847-491-8031
Claudia Swan teaches courses on northern European visual culture 1400-1700, art and science, the
history of collecting, and the history of the imagination. She is the author of numerous publications on
Dutch art and science and on practices and theories of the imagination. Single author works include The
Clutius Botanical Watercolors and Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland: Jacques de Gheyn II; as well as (forthcoming)
“Rarities of these Lands”: Encounters with the Exotic in Golden Age Holland. She is co-editor of Colonial Botany and (forthcoming)
Image. Imagination. Cognition.
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Pamela Bannos, M.F.A.
Art Theory & Practice
847-491-8774
Pamela Bannos is an artist and researcher who explores the links between visual representation, urban
space, history, and collective memory. Her recent projects include investigations of Chicago’s Lincoln
Park and the grounds of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She also exhibits photographic
works. Bannos has a BA in psychology and sociology from Drake University and an MFA in photography
from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her 2017 book, Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and
Afterlife, is published by the University of Chicago Press. Bannos has taught photography in the department of art theory and practice
since 1993.
Junko Sato, M.Ed.
Asian Languages & Cultures
847-491-2762
Junko Sato has been teaching and developing Japanese I-IV at Northwestern for 20 years. She currently serves as the Japanese Language Program administrative and placement coordinator. Her research interests include heritage learners and group dynamics in the language classroom.
Regan Thomson, Ph.D.
Chemistry
847-467-5963
Regan J. Thomson was born in New Zealand in 1976, and received his Ph.D. in 2003 at The Australian
National University. Following postdoctoral studies at Harvard University, he joined the faculty at
Northwestern University in 2006 where he is currently Professor of Chemistry. Regan’s research interests
include natural product synthesis and discovery, and atmospheric chemistry. He is the recipient of an NSF
CAREER Award, an Amgen Young Investigator Award, and an Illinois Division American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award.
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Taco Terpstra, Ph.D.
Classics
847-491-8039
Taco Terpstra is a socioeconomic historian of ancient Rome. His core research focuses on Roman long-
distance trade, specifically on the question of how merchants organized their business to overcome the
problems posed by preindustrial conditions. He is the author of Trading Communities in the Roman
World: A Micro-Economic and Institutional Perspective (Brill, 2013) as well as a number of articles on
Roman trade. His teaching includes courses on Roman economic history and the archaeology of Roman Campania.
The Earth and Planetary Science Department is currently holding an election
Robert Gordon, Ph.D.
Chair, Salary & Benefits Committee
Economics
847-491-3616
Robert Gordon is a macroeconomist with a particular interest in unemployment, inflation, and both the
long-run and cyclical aspects of labor productivity. He is the author The Rise and Fall of American Growth
(Princeton University Press, 2016). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was
elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 2014. For more than three
decades, he has been a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Business Cycle Dating Committee, which determines
the start and end dates for recessions in the United States.
Helen Thompson, Ph.D.
English
847-491-7187
Helen Thompson (B.A. English and Chemistry, Amherst College; M.A. The Writing Seminars, Johns
Hopkins University; Ph.D. Duke University) teaches eighteenth-century British and transatlantic literature,
philosophy, the history of science, and feminism. She is the author of two books: Ingenuous Subjection:
Power and Compliance in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005)
and Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel (University of Pennsylvania Press, January 2017).
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Alessandra Visconti, Ph.D.
French & Italian
847-491-8271
Alessandra Visconti was born in Beirut, Lebanon and grew up in Rome. Her academic background includes
studies in comparative literature at the University of Venice, a degree in Historical Performance at the
Mannes College of Music in NYC and an MA in Applied Linguistics at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
She has performed throughout the US, Europe and Japan and can be heard on critically acclaimed recordings of medieval,
renaissance and baroque music. She coaches operatic diction at the Chicago Opera Theater and the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric
Opera of Chicago, and has performed with the New York Choral Artists, Musica Sacra, the Newberry Consort, Music of the Baroque,
Schola Antiqua of Chicago and the Beyond the Score series with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She has published two Italian
language manuals with McGraw-Hill and is currently doing research on the acquisition of Italian by speakers of Spanish.
Christine Helmer, Ph.D.
German
847-491-2616
Christine Helmer (Ph.D. Yale) is Professor of German at Northwestern University, with a courtesy
appointment in the Department of Religious Studies. In 2017 she was awarded an honorary doctorate in
theology from the University of Helsinki for her work on German reformer Martin Luther, as well as for
her commitment to theology as an important contributor to the intellectual life of the university.
Professor Helmer’s area of research and teaching specialization is Christian theology from historical, systematic, and constructive
perspectives. Her work is focused on German intellectual history with primary interest in the theology of Martin Luther, the
philosophy and theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher, and the flourishing of scholarship on Luther and on religion in early twentieth-
century Germany, known as the Luther Renaissance. Her recent book How Luther Became the Reformer (Westminster John Knox
2019) traces the story of how early twentieth-century German theologians constructed the myth of the “Here I stand Luther”
as prototype of modernity at the end of the First World War.
David Schoenbrun, Ph.D.
History
847-491-7278
David Schoenbrun (Ph.D., UCLA, 1990) has been learning, teaching, and writing about Africa since 1978.
He is the author of two books and numerous articles and the Co-Executive Producer of two films. He
works with historical linguistics, archaeology, paleoecology and biogeography, oral traditions,
comparative ethnography, and more conventional documentary sources to study East Africa’s earlier
history.
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Jennifer Cole, Ph.D.
Chair, Faculty Rights & Responsibilities Committee
Linguistics
847-491-7020
As a phonologist, Dr. Jennifer Cole investigates the sound patterns of human languages. Her primary
area of research is prosody—the intonation and rhythmic patterns of language—and its role in conveying
information about word and sentence structure, pragmatic meaning, speaker’s emotion, and the
dynamics of social interaction. She uses experimental and observational approaches to examine prosody in English and many other
languages. Dr. Cole is also a specialist in the phonology and phonetics of Sindhi, an Indo-Aryan language.
Emmy Murphy, Ph.D.
Mathematics
847-491-5553
Dr. Murphy is interested in symplectic topology, which is a field of math related to holomorphic
geometry, smooth topology, and mathematical physics. In practice this means she spends a lot of time
trying to imagine complicated 6 dimensional shapes, how to break them into small pieces, how these
building blocks fit together, and what that tells us about the architecture of these spaces.
Robert Holmgren, Ph.D.
Chair, Research Affairs Committee
Molecular Biosciences [email protected] 847-491-5460
Dr. Robert Holmgren’s laboratory studies Hedgehog signal transduction, which plays a central role in
animal development and human disease. The main focus of the lab is the identification and
characterization of new pathway components. Their approach is to use an in vivo RNAi
suppressor/enhancer screen to discover candidate genes, which are then validated and studied to
determine how they function within the pathway.
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Fred Turek, Ph.D.
Neurobiology
847-467-6512
Dr. Fred Turek graduated from Stanford University in Stanford, California in 1973, receiving a PhD in
Biological Sciences; he then completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas,
where he studied in the Department of Zoology before becoming an Assistant Professor at Northwestern
University in 1975. He was Chair of the Department of Neurobiology and Physiology from 1987-1998. He is
presently the Director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology and is the Charles E. and Emma H. Professor of Biology in the
Department of Neurobiology and has joint appointments in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
at the Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Venkat Chandrasekhar, Ph.D.
Physics & Astronomy
847-491-3444
Professor Chandrasekhar is a member of the Northwestern University Mesoscopic Physics Group.
Mesoscopic physics studies objects that lie between the worlds of classical and quantum mechanics, objects
usually large enough to be visible in an optical microscope, but small enough to have properties exhibiting
the wavelike, nonlocal, and coherent behavior that are signatures of the quantum world. With a host of new
physical phenomena only realizable at the nanoscale, mesoscopic research lies not only at the intersection of the classical and the
quantum, but at the nexus of basic physics research and cutting-edge technology as well.
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Stephen Nelson , Ph.D.
Political Science
847-491-2589
Professor Nelson’s main research and teaching interests lie in the subfields of International and
Comparative Political Economy. His recent work explores a variety of topics, including the politics that
shape the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) lending policies; the structure and governance of financial
markets before and after the near-collapse of the American financial system in 2008; the political dynamics
of developing and emerging market countries’ decisions to open their economies to international capital flows; how organizational
cultures shape the behavior of international institutions; and the international organization of sovereign debt markets. Professor
Nelson's book, The Currency of Confidence: How Economic Beliefs Shape the IMF's Relationship with Its Borrowers (Cornell
University Press, 2017), is based on his dissertation, which won the American Political Science Association's Helen Dwight Reid Award
in 2010. He has published articles in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Political
Economy, and Review of International Organizations. Links to his papers, replication files, and syllabi for courses can be found on
his personal website.
David Uttal, Ph.D.
Psychology
847-467-1925
David Uttal is a Professor of Psychology and Education at Northwestern University. Along with teaching,
he leads a research laboratory of undergraduate, graduate students, and post-docs. His interests include
Maps, Symbolic Representation, Informal Learning, & Spatial Thinking in STEM Education.
Mark McClish, Ph.D.
Religious Studies
847-467-3838
Mark McClish specializes in classical Hinduism, with a focus on early legal and political literature
(dharmaśāstra and arthaśāstra). He holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from Indiana University and an M.A.
and Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in Asian Cultures and Languages with a specialization in
Sanskrit and Indian Religions. His research uses a close reading of text to explore the intersection of the
religious, legal, and political in classical Sanskrit literature. He is particularly interested in the relationship between royal and religious
authority in classical South Asia, the development of Hindu law, and the political dimensions of Brahmanical orthodoxy in the period.
He is the author of The History of the Arthaśāstra: Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India (Cambridge 2019).
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Susan McReynolds, Ph.D.
Slavic Languages & Literature
847-467-2754
Susan McReynolds' research interests include Russian and German literature and philosophy;
nationalism, anti-Semitism, and religion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and Tolstoy and
Dostoevsky. She is the author of Redemption and the Merchant God: Dostoevsky’s Economy of Salvation
and Antisemitism (Northwestern UP 2008) and editor of a Norton Critical Edition of The Brothers
Karamazov. She is currently completing a monograph on Dostoevsky’s contributions to twentieth-
century political developments and several projects on Tolstoy.
Laura Beth Nielsen, Ph.D.
Sociology
847- 491-3718
Laura Beth Nielsen is a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation as well as a Professor of
Sociology and Director of the Center for Legal Studies at Northwestern University. She is a sociologist
and lawyer with degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Nielsen’s research focuses
on law’s capacity for social change. Her primary field is the sociology of law, with particular interests in
legal consciousness (how ordinary people understand the law) and the relationship between law and inequalities of race, gender, and
class. Her first monograph, License to Harass: Law, Hierarchy, and Offensive Public Speech, (Princeton University Press, 2004) studies
racist and sexist street speech, targets’ reactions and responses to it, and attitudes about using law to deal with such speech. In
addition, she is the author of numerous articles published in the UCLA Law Review, Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry,
Law and Policy, Stanford Journal of Law and Policy, and the Wisconsin Law Review. She is also the recipient of grants and awards
from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford
University, and the MacArthur Foundation.
Sue Pechter, M.A.
Spanish & Portuguese
847-467-7471
Susan Pechter received her B.A. from the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana with a major in
Russian Education and a minor in Spanish. After teaching Russian and English as a Second Language she
completed an M.A. from Northwestern University in Spanish Literature. Sue coordinates and teaches
Spanish 101 and loves seeing students’ progress from knowing no Spanish to being able to communicate
well at a basic level. Sue enjoys the challenge of creating new activities to facilitate and energize communication and develop cultural
understanding.
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The Statistics Department is currently holding an election
Mark Witte
Chair, Governance Committee
Non-Tenure Eligible Member
847-491-8481
Mark Witte's research deals with applied questions in macroeconomics and public finance. His main
interests are in consumption theory and topics in taxation. His teaching interests include
macroeconomics, money and banking, public finance, and the economics of the environment and the
extraction of natural resources. He has been voted onto the Associated Student Government honor roll numerous times in
recognition of both his teaching and student advising. He has been honored with a Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (WCAS)
Distinguished Teaching Award, and a WCAS Distinguished Leader in the Undergraduate Community Award.
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AFFILIATED FACULTY
Roger Boye
Parliamentarian
Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications
847-491-2069
Roger Boye is an associate professor emeritus-in-service. He has taught at Medill since he received a master’s degree with highest distinction in 1971 and was the school’s assistant dean and director of undergraduate studies for nearly 18 years. He has directed the Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute
since 1985 and has taught in the Institute since 1971. He is faculty chair of the Communications Residential College and has chaired the Graduate Fellowship Committee as well as Medill’s Curriculum Committee and Academic Standards Committee.
Building a tradition of shared governance at Northwestern
